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London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

Creative design of learning programmes. Executive coaching. Professional facilitation and delivery of development to global leadership groups across a variety of organisations.

Leading a newly formed Innovation & Design hub focussing on thought leadership, new product development and building impactful and practical content to meet the future need of leaders and organisations for a global behavioural change consultancy. Key successes:Designing and delivering an internal solution to address intrinsic knowledge management challenges, increasing knowledge transfer and roll out of best practice, building core competencies across teams, and improving onboarding processes. Establishing new behavioural approaches to connect colleagues and increase consistency in approach and experience. Resulting in higher quality, more efficient, and a "leading edge" experience for both our internal teams and our clients.Acting as the subject matter expert for creativity and innovation. Linking consultants to new and engaging resources, sparking new ways of thinking about their work, and developing brand new content and tools that can be beneficial to multiple client needs.

London, England, United Kingdom

Known for having a positive and practical approach to managing client hopes and expectations from large-scale development programmes and learning design based on real-life organisational experience. Grounded in the strength of co-creation, I work with the client and their leaders to really understand their needs and design programmes to help the leader get the best out of themselves and their teams. And the best learning happens when the experience is meaningful, impactful and memorable - which really enables me to bring the creativity, energy and fun into the equation.Key success:Across multiple clients, led the transformation of previously successful and much-loved in-person learning events to equally effective and impactful virtual experiences that deliver higher-quality outcomes in a more modern and inclusive approach to a global audience.Partnered with client to develop and roll out new workplace behaviours to entire 1,000+ person organisation, delivering innovative thinking and role-modelling behaviour change within the challenging context of the start of the pandemic.As the learning environment was changing rapidly for our clients, and ourselves, led a more intentional redesign of existing development programme structures to allow for synchronous and asynchronous learning touch points, this established better learner experiences and more sustainable behaviour-change. Designing new internal approach to ensure that all programmes have the capacity to learn and evolve to suit ever-changing client needs.

London, United Kingdom

Creative design of learning programmes. Executive coaching. Professional facilitation and delivery of development to leadership groups across a variety of organisations.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Partnering with organisations to design and deliver interventions to support culture change, organisational transformation, employee engagement and inclusion initiatives. Working with teams and individuals to develop leadership capability through designed learning experiences and coaching.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for developing and delivering the national employee engagement strategy for BMI Healthcare - covering 10,000 employees across 60+ sites. Led on the culture change element of a major long term, business wide transformation programme - including the creation of a robust strategy, ongoing engagement with senior stakeholders, effective influencing activities to drive local engagement across the country, development of appropriate training programmes with third party suppliers, measuring effectiveness through feedback mechanisms and implementing appropriate interventions where required.

London, United Kingdom

Leading and managing a team responsible for the delivery of the annual calendar of HR programmes across the business (pay review, bonus round, performance review cycle and staff survey), major conferences for the Senior Management Group (200 top managers) and employee recognition gala events along with a range of specific HR projects including harmonisation, database related work and providing business partner support to the Corporate functions.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the delivery of a variety of HR iniatives and projects across the business including; annual pay review, annual bonus round, performance review cycle and staff survey. Continuing to provide senior operational support as and when required on complex ER issues and restructuring activities.

London, United Kingdom

Development of the business partnering role in the region (first time within the business) building successful, effective and trusting relationships with the Executive Directors and senior hospital managers. Driving significant change programmes through the region including regionalisation of HR services and hospital restructuring. Started role responsible for supporting five hospitals which grew to 15 hospitals in the three year period including opening two brand new sites, recruiting to and implementing HR processes in a six month period.

London, United Kingdom

Led a team of 15 to service HR requirements for 700 staff in three organisations with differing cultures, policies and terms and conditions (public sector, commercial trading company and charity foundation) over two sites. Key achievements during time in this role include the implementation of a HR Business Partner and shared service model to replace functional teams, effectively dealing with employees and trade unions on delicate ER issues during significant changes to legislation (notably with changes to retirement age) and delivering a very positive two year pay deal off the back of 12 months of pay negotiations with the multiple unions in the collective bargaining group.

London, United Kingdom

Initially managed a team of nine spanning two separate HR functions covering 950 staff over four sites on differing terms and conditions and policies (private & public sector). Responsible for the delivery of two outsourced payroll and benefits functions and the project management of the updated civil service pension scheme roll-out to 800 staff. From a commercial perspective with the Trading company, led on remuneration and reward for the business, supported the senior management team through periods of significant change (restructuring, TUPE and redundancies) and restructured HR delivery.

Phosphate Hill, Australia

Part of a two person HR team responsible for HR activities for 270 permanent staff and 300 contractors over three sites 1000km apart. As the site was in commissioning phase, worked with the HR Superintendent to set up the function, develop and manage the new stater process from commencement of site operations and roll-out the new performance management system.

Townsville, Australia

Lead Project Manager on Operations Start-Up Recruitment Programme - recruiting 200 staff members across all disciplines in a seven month period to coincide with the ramp up of plant commissioning (for a new Zinc Refinery). In conjunction with the local TAFE college, developed training plans (with recognised training qualifications) for 75 Trainee Refinery Operators. Designed and delivered induction and training programmes for all new starters (220 people) in English and Korean.

Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, Korea

Bachelor Of International Business Relations, (Study Focus) Korean Language, Organisational Development, Politics In The Asia-Pacific Region

Graduate Diploma Of Korean Language, (Study Focus) Korean Language, International Law, International Business